Where: Yukon, Canada (61.5° N, 136.2° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 76.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Laberge Group, Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 168.3 Ma)
• Fossil beds stated as probably Middle Bajocian in Poulton, 1979
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified shale and lithified sandstone
•"Undifferentiated Laberge and Lewes River Group shale, greywacke, and conglomerate between Open Creek and Teslin River; JLcg- conglomerate, like that of the Conglomerate Formation, but with some chert olasts; TRH?- limestone, probably part of the Lewes River Group. Laberge map area."
•(Tempelman-Kluit, 1984)
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by T. P. Poulton; reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: T. P. Poulton. 1979. Jurassic Trigoniid Bivalves from Canada and Western United States of America. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 282 [G. Stanley/H. Shepherd/H. Shepherd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 125788: authorized by George Stanley, entered by Hannah Shepherd on 23.03.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Vaugonia ? yukonensis Poulton 1979 clam n. sp., Holotype GSC 43284, Paratypes 43283, 43285, 43286 from C-18179
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